Review of The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) by Jon P — 26 Sep 2016
Martin Scorsese's oft-forgotten retelling of The Last Temptation of Christ presents the viewer with a psychological portrait of Jesus seldom seen in the average biblical epic.
Willem Dafoe plays the unlikely messiah tormented by voices and traditions in a tale that takes liberties with legend and fiction alike in favour of psychology.
Dafoe's Jesus is a tragi-hero of Shakespearean proportions and Scorsese's challenging, creative film is perhaps the only of its subgenre to ask the gut-punching question, 'what if it all went wrong?'.
This review of The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) was written by Jon P on 26 Sep 2016.
The Last Temptation of Christ has generally received very positive reviews.
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